Jonathan Jasper Wright
Jonathan Jasper Wright attended Lancasterian University. Upon completing his legal studies, he attempted to stand the Pennsylvania bar, but it wasn’t allowed, presumably because of his race. Wright accepted a position in Beaufort to open a school and teach the newly freed slaves. In addition to teaching school aged children, he taught the black adult […]
Shirley Chisholm
Shirley Chisholm, née Shirley Anita St. Hill, (born November 30, 1924, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.—died January 1, 2005, Ormond Beach, Florida), American politician, the first African American woman to be elected to the U.S. Congress. Shirley St. Hill was the daughter of immigrants; her father was from British Guiana (now Guyana) and her mother from […]
Gracia Real de Santa Teresa de Mose
In 1687 eight men, two women, and a nursing child escaped from Carolina to Spanish St. Augustine and requested baptism into the “True Faith.” Florida’s governor sheltered the runaways out of Christian obligation and refused to return them when an agent from Carolina came to reclaim them. The slaves’ “telegraph” quickly reported this out-come, and […]